“I may not have always shown up to the Solo Nationals, but I wasalways, in my mind, very involved with the SCCA,” Mark Scroggstells me of the process that eventually led him to volunteeringon a Solo Advisory Committee and now the Solo Events Board(SEB). “I’ve lived and breathed autocross, so I’d write letters.”In the years prior to Mark’s first year of competing at the SoloNational Championships, Solo’s Stock class was undergoinga transformation – one that turned Stock into Street.

“It started with the idea that Stock was dying,” he says. “Therewas a movement to change Stock from R-compounds to Street tiresand, at first, it was kicked to the curb, but more and more peoplewere asking for this. Around 2010 or ’ 11, people were talking aboutit locally, and I was one of those, ‘You can pry the Hoosiers out of mydead, cold fingers,’ people because, well, Hoosiers are awesome.But I found myself saying, ‘I, I, I,’ a lot when I was doing that.”At that time, Mark was competing in E Stock on relativelyinexpensive 14-inch tires. “They were still expensive for 14-inchtires,” he admits, “but they were vastly cheaper than peoplerunning 18s or 17s. So, I was like, OK, I see your perspective.I wrote a letter to the SEB. At the time, good friends CharlieFast forward a few years and Mark took a year off fromthat committee, but he then found himself applying for aposition on the SEB, where he now finds himself tacklingnumerous problems he’d never before considered.